Thresher-tank.



No. 69mm.` Patented 1an, 28,1902.

E. E. sTuTL .TMm-:snes TANK.

(Application filed Oct. 12, 1901.)

` (No Model.)

t UNTTED STATES PATENT i EEICE.

EUGENE E. STUTZ, OF MIDDLEBURY, INDIANA.

THRESHER-TAN K.

` SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 691,920, dated January 28, 1902.

Application filed October 12,1901. Serial No. 78,491. (No model.)

To al?, zoll/0711, t may concern;

Be it known that I, EUGENE E. STUTZ, a citizen of the United States, residing at Middle-` sagging or becoming misshaped by the weight of the water and fuel deposited therein and to have each truss-support so constructed that it may be conveniently and readily applied to the bolster of a wagon-truck.

The invention consists in the construction and arrangement of the several parts, which will be more fully hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view ofthe thresher-tank embodying the fea` tures of the invention, Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical section through the same and the rear truss-support. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal vertical section of a portion of the tank and the front truss-support. Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view of one of the truss-supports.

Similar numerals of reference are employed to indicate corresponding parts in the several views.

The numeral l designates the body of the tank, which is constructed of any suitable non corrosive sheet metal and may be of the semicircular form shown or of oblong, round, or cylindrical shape. The bodies of these tanks have 4been made in various crosssectional contours for some time, and it is proposed to follow the various shapes heretofore employed in the construction of the improved tank, the reinforcing and supporting parts, which Will be hereinafter set forth, being changed to conform to the variation in the cross-sectional contour of the tank. In the tank,as shown,are upper oifset side fianges 2 and rear fiange 3, which are reinforced by metallic straps 4,riveted thereto to strengthen the flange and give it sufficient rigidity to prevent it from being crushed, the provision of the danges providing a greater transverse top space. The upper portion of the front end of the tank is provided with a shovel, board, or iiange 5, which leads to a fuel-box top 6, on which is disposed the fuel for feeding the engine to which the tank may be attached. The f nel-box top extends rearwardly to a transverse partition 7, and from the said partition tothe rear end of the tank a waterspace 8 is formed, which communicates with the space under the bottom of the said fuel; box top and has a removable top cover 8,- the custom being in this construction to inter pose bulkhcads within the inclosed portion of the water-space to break the force of the watervcaused by the sudden movement of the tank when transported from one place to another or while drawn by the engine, the said bulkheads also serving to strengthen the tank. These bulkheads have not been shown, nor is it absolutely necessary that they be used; but as it is a common construction ithas been referred to as applicable for use in the present form of tank.

Where the curved portion of the body of the tank angularly intersects the ends of the latter angularly-bent brace-straps 9 are applied and firmly secured byrivets or other means, and extending upwardly over the central portions of the ends of the tank are counterbraces l0. At an intermediate point also and conforming in shape to the curved body portion of the tank is a T-brace 11, which is exteriorly applied and also securely fastened in place to strengthen the intermediate portion of the tank. The outer overhanging portions of the danges 2 have metal brace-straps 12 secured thereto, so that the said portions of the flanges may serve as supporting means in connection with specially-constructed devices for holding the tank in connection with a Wagon -truck and which Will now be eX- plained.

The devices used for holding the tank on a wagon-truck are in the form of truss-supports 13, which engage the front and rear extremiA ties of the tank. Each of these truss-supports comprises a rectangular base-frame 14, made up of side and end angle-bars 15, which are secured in any suitable manner to the holsters of a wagon-truck, and rising from the corners- KOU of said frame 14 are angle-iron upright-s 16. Secured to the upper extremities of the uprights 16 are inverted arcuate braces or carriers 17, which are also formed from angleiron and have the terminals 1S of the two members of cach at opposite ends bent at an angle and apertured for disposition under and against the overhanging horizontal portions of the ianges 2, to which they are bolted. The intermediate portions of the arcuate braces or carriers 17 are also riveted or otherwise attached to the front and rear side angle-bars of the frame 14, the contour of the braces or carriers conforming to that of the body of the tank, so that the said tank will snugly it in said braces or carriers. By the use of these truss -supports a convenient means of holding the tank on a Wagon-truck is provided and at the same time the body of the tank is reinforced and strengthened to resist bending or sagging by the Weight of material disposed therein.

The improved form of tank will be found exceptionally convenient, and in view of the lightened construction of the same the Weightdrag on the engine to which it is attached or with which it is used will be materially reduced when compared with the ordinary c0nstruction of this class of devices.

I-Iaving thus described the invention', what is claimed as new is l. In a thresher-tank, the combination of a tank-body having an approximately semicylindrical bottom, and truss-supports therefor adapted to be secured to a wagon-truck and comprising a base-frame of approximately rectangular form, uprights arranged at the corners of the frame and inverted arcuate carriers secured at their ends to the nprights and connected between their ends to the baseframe and conforming to the configuration of the bottom of the tank-body, substantially as described.

2. In a thresher-tank, the combination of a tank body having upper overhanging side flanges and truss-supports for saidbody adapted to be secured to a wagon-truck and comprising a base-frame with corner-uprights and front and rear inverted arcuate carriers having the upper terminals bearing against and secured to the said flanges.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

EUGENE E. STUTZ.

Witnesses:

M. G. HoovER, IRA E. ELLIOTT. 

